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Thean Eu

Greetings. I'm a journalist from Business Times Malaysia.
Despite the global economic slowdown, the telecommunications industry, in general, continues to capture the imagination with its potential for one billion new subscribers decades to come.
Broadband Internet penetration rates continue to rise while the impending introduction of next generation mobile services promises to revitalize a mobile market that has already reached saturation levels in a number of countries.
Hopefuly this blog will provide a unique platform for the sharing of ideas and experience from all sectors of the telecommunications and information technology industries – policy, regulatory, economic and development issues – to meet the challenge of strengthening the information society locally and other countries.

Monday, February 15, 2010

The company designed its own LTE modem chipset, code name: Kalmia, and implemented it into its N150 netbook.

Apparently, there were some live streaming demonstration, which i missed as i was attending the mobile conference.

Will definitely pay the booth a visit and take the picture of the netbook, and see the demonstration myself.

Anyway, LTE is dubbed as a 4G technology. For operators, it is believed to be the next upgrade of the 3G, HSPA, HSPA+ technologies. On theory, via field test, the technology is able to achieve a download speed of 277 Mbps and an upload speed of 70 Mbps.

To run things like HDTV streaming, it is more than sufficient, as it only requires like 30 Mbps.

Besides observing the demonstration myself, i will also check on the netbook´s battery life and see if the modem (if its external) heats up like mad...